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January 25, 2004
Chuq on Project Management
Here.
I agree with Chuq. I've worked closely with project managers, and helped them - both by leading projects, helping with estimation, and "translation". And let me agree even more strongly, that the biggest problem I've had sitting in meetings, is watching the various -really intelligent- people who just don't understand what each other are saying.
I had an amusing realization a few days ago, that I feel like an old-fashioned Court Jester sometimes. I find that it's my role in some of these meetings to ask the really dumb-ass questions, even when I know the answers, so that the people to my left realize that the people on the right aren't saying what they thought they were saying... Let them have a few seconds of amusement at how little I seem to understand. At some point they'll realize that I really do understand these things more than it seems (sometimes - I -am- just learning about a whole new industry for me); probably if/when they notice that I really do ask -just- the right question to clarify a miscommunication between the various groups, departments, or fields (tech vs. marketing vs. business etc.).
And if they don't, at least there are some people who do -- my manager, the people I work with more frequently, and whoever they arbitrarily choose to point this out to. :-)
Posted by aland at January 25, 2004 11:00 PM
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Here's another great posting from Chuq on project management & stuff, which pretty much parallels my current project at work:
Posted by: AlanD at February 24, 2004 11:39 PM